Image forming apparatus

Abstract

An image forming apparatus has a latent image writing device that writes an electrostatic latent image on an image bearing member, a developing device that develops a toner image based on the electrostatic latent image, a transferring device that transfers the toner image onto a recording material, a position correcting unit that corrects a position of the electrostatic latent image written by the latent image writing device, a recording material determining unit that determines whether or not the recording material has a long width, and a corrected amount changing unit that, when the recording material determining unit determines that the recording material has a long width, changes an amount of correcting the position of the electrostatic latent image to a value different from a set value for a recording material having a standard width.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus such as a copying machine, printer and the like, and more particularly to an improvement in an image forming apparatus in which image forming on a recording material having a long width is possible. [0003] 2. Description of the Prior Art [0004] Explaining this type of the conventional image forming apparatus by taking, for example, an electrophotographic system as an example, there has been the one provided with a latent image writing device for writing an electrostatic latent image to a photoreceptor drum as an image-bearing member, a developing device for making this electrostatic latent image visible and a transferring device for transferring this developed image onto a sheet as a recording material. [0005] In this type of image forming apparatus, an adopted latent image writing device is provided with a charger for charging the photoreceptor drum and an...

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Benefits of technology

[0014] The present invention is addressed to the abovementioned technical problems, and provides an image forming apparatus wherein the effective developing width of the developing device can be minimized as necessary and the image formation can be satisfactorily performed to a recording material having a standard width or a long width, which is obtained by paying attention to the specialty of the image formation to the recording material having a long width.

Problems solved by technology

In this case, non-uniformness exists in each accommodating tray due to a mechanical tolerance, so that the position for accommodating the sheet varies for every tray in the widthwise direction (corresponding to the direction perpendicular to the advancing direction of the sheet).

Therefore, the width of the developing device should be more enlarged than necessary, thereby entailing a technical problem of not meeting the demand for miniaturization of the developing device.

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